You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

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Student: Something totally new. It’s like facing life, terribly
terrific freedom.
Wolinsky: So allow this process, a terrific freedom.
Student: There is a lot of charge attached to these movements.
Wolinsky: A lot of energy?
Student: I would say also an emotional charge.
Wolinsky: Notice the emotional charge and as you watch
this process of condensation turning into activity
take the label off of it and notice the energy
as it goes into condensation and then back into
activity. Notice how much energy is in it, the
power.
Student: It has a terrific beauty, it is like being thousands of
years back and seeing the earth’s primal Force.
Wolinsky: Now if, this concept called “my” consciousness
which believes in the concept of I am, also believed
in this primal process of condensation and
a gap and tremendous energy as going back into
activity—if it believed in all that, what would be
the consequences for the concept called “my”
consciousness?
Student: If you could believe as in you believe, the consequences
would be an incredible freedom and
let go. I can be lazy as much as I want because
I know at a certain point, something will move
and change—I feel much less resistance. I can
be lazy. And also stupid.
Wolinsky: Okay, now if this concept called “my” consciousness
was to believe in the concept called I am
which believed in the whole concept of this con-